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I believe this is another sock of the person who was initially indeffed for his edits promoting the work of Jack Turban (as User:Thesciencenewsonline), then came back as User:Tombolaka5308. gnu 57 02:54, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Edit to add: MentalHealthResearch's first edit was an extensive, largely promotional addition to Draft:Jack Turban, which Thesciencenewsonline started and Tombolaka5308 also edited. MentalHealthResearch's other edits have also involved advancing Turban's viewpoint on gender and sexuality issues (e.g., on models of care for transgender/gender-nonconforming youth), just like Thesciencenewsonline. Turban has very recently been embroiled in a public dispute with Abigail Shrier; MentalHealthResearch just created Draft:Abigail Shrier. gnu 57 04:08, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

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I have received a notification of sockpuppet allegations, and I read the page on defending oneself against these claims, but I do not see evidence provided here. MentalHealthResearch (talk) 03:04, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

I was just about to state on MentalHealthResearch's talk page that MentalHealthResearch appears to be Thesciencenewsonline. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 03:28, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

In response to User:Genericusername57's new comments above: I also read that public dispute between the two with interest. I added additional information about their viewpoints on both the Shrier and Turban pages. I also added criticism sections for each of them to provide balanced perspectives on them both. In terms of editing pages related to sexuality and gender issues, I have an interest in gender and sexuality topics and have read and added to pages on those topics. MentalHealthResearch (talk) 04:30, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * Tagged thesciencenewsonline as a sockmaster. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 12:33, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

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. All three previous accounts -- User:Thesciencenewsonline, User:Tombolaka5308 and User:MentalHealthResearch -- are focused on American physician Jack Turban/his research, and specifically the page Draft:Jack Turban, just as the IP is. The IP uses sentence-case edit summaries, just as MentalHealthResearch (1, 2, 3), Tombolaka5308 (1), and Thesciencenewsonline (1, 2, 3, 4) did. Note also that both Thesciencenewsonline and the IP use Template:! in references and use a YYYY-MM-DD date format (1, 2). Tombalaka5308 acknowledged a COI with Jack Turban, who is currently a fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, and the IP geolocates to Palo Alto. —0xf8e8 💿 (talk) 00:07, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * This very much looks like the same person. I've blocked the /64 for a week, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  06:47, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets


This IP range shows the same pattern of promotionalism as the other socks in the SPI archive, and geolocates to a similar area. Another account and IP that seem suspicious to me are
 * -- uploaded a headshot to Commons
 * -- similar geolocation, see diff gnu 57 21:56, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * Both the v6 range and the v4 look like them, blocked. Not touching the account, since they're not actually on enwiki yet. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:31, 1 March 2022 (UTC)